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Kanakarayan Aru

watercourse in Sri Lanka

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ6360410 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Kanakarayan Aru is a river in Northern Province, Sri Lanka. The river rises in eastern Vavuniya District, near Omanthai, and flows north through Vavuniya District, Mullaitivu District and Kilinochchi District. It empties into the Chundikkulam Lagoon.

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“Kanakarayan Aru” enters the record as watercourse in Sri Lanka. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kanakarayan, watercourse and Lanka can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kanakarayan Aru” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.